Whether it's a novel, a mystery book or the bestseller of the moment, it doesn't matter: reading a book extends your life.
Whether it's a novel, a mystery book or the bestseller of the moment, it doesn't matter: reading a book extends your life. That it helped memory, concentration and to keep the brain in shape was now a well-known thing, that it was even an elixir of life, it was not at all obvious.
To support it is a team of researchers of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which discovered how readers, regardless of gender and lifestyle, live two more years, compared to those who never leaf through a page.
Research published in Social Science & Medicine examined a sample of 3635 volunteers over 50 years by dividing them into three groups: those who didn't read books, those who spent one to three and a half hours reading, and avid readers with more than three and a half hours a week.
First, it emerged that readers tend to be of female sex, they have a university degree and a high economic standard of living. The study, in fact, contextualized the volunteers on the basis of age, race, state of health, type of employment and family characteristics.
It emerged that those who read for three and a half hours a week have the 17% less chance of dying in the next twelve years and 23% less for those who read for more than three and a half hours. Similar results also for those who read only newspapers or periodicals.
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In summary, therefore, one would be enough to live longer half an hour of reading a day, in fact in 80% of cases the readers would earn about 23 months of life.
"Those who claim to read about half an hour a day have a considerable chance of living longer than those who do not, and this advantage remains even when the degree of well-being, education and cognitive abilities of the analyzed subjects vary", he declared Becca R. Levy, professor of epidemiology at Yale and author of the research.
Happy reading to everyone!
